The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1935, Page 4

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All rights of republication of al! other matter herein are also reserved. Inspiration for Today ! My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever— Psalms 73:26. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. —J. F. Clarke. | ) ee 8 | || | i No Quota on Good Will In common with the rest of the nation, North Dakota today begins a quiet effort to raise contributions for a Will Rogers memorial. | The aim is to give the people who laughed with the great humorist and homely philosopher an| opportunity to express their regard for his achievements and his memory in a tangible} way. There will be no campaign, no direct solici-| tation, no high pressure tactics; merely an in-| vitation to the people of this state and nation to give what they care to give that the memory of this man may be perpetuated. Throughout his lifetime as a public man, Rogers contributed much to the welfare of this} nation. A humorist, humanitarian and philoso- pher, he had no aspirations toward statesman: ship, yet he did much to improve the standards | in that field. . A well-aimed shaft punctured many an inflated ego. A pungent observation | revealed the sham in many a tinseled political idea. He had the knack of putting thoughts in| people’s minds—and statesmen respected and feared him. A sentence from Will Rogers fre-} quently was worth more than a dozen speeches! by others. His fresh viewpoint and wholesome phil- osophy made him eminently good for all of us; and his pills of hard common sense were sugar-| coated with laughter. As no other man has ever done, he brought} the spirit of the west to all sections of the na- tion—and made them like it. The great and the near great were subjects for his humor. Frequently he put into quaint and pungent words the inarticulate thoughts of the masses of people. This, perhaps, may have been one of the s s of his popularity. i But his dominant trait was kindness. Did some deserving movement cry out for help? Will Rogers was in the forefront of good neigh-| bors. When drouth struck our own section of | the nation, Will Rogers wasted no time in idle talk. He shed no crocodile tears bemoaning his inability to help. What he did was to go ona lecture tour. At its close he turned $200,000| over to the Red Cross drouth relief fund. His} charities were legion, for the distressed heart or the maimed form cried out to him in irresist- ible terms. Jest and quip and pointed remark were his stock in trade, but withal Rogers never was offensive. The greatness of his heart shone through and always the victim of his wit} laughed with him, for the great funster could and did—laugh at himself, too. There is no doubt of the good will which; Will Rogers had toward America. There can ‘be no doubt of the good will which America has toward him. The current campaign to raise a memorial fund is merely an effort to turn that good will into something tangible, a living me- morial which will perpetuate, as nearly as may be, his attitude toward life and the people he loved. The nature of the memorial has not been} determined. That will be decided by a com- mittee of distinguished citizens who knew and loved Will Rogers, but of this much we can be sure: it will be something warm.and vital and human and useful, just as those qualities shone so brilliantly.in his own personality. The memorial will be a lasting honor to the memory of the man who was one of the most lovable and useful individuals of our generation. And, because Will Rogers was what he was, ehind the Seenes. in Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER To Put It Kindly, There's Some Doubt About Roosevelt Job Figures . . . Unemployment Census Ban Stirs Comment ... Rough Seas Bring Revenge to Ickes... Careful Cal Played Safe With Check, Washington, Nov. 4.—It you remember the amazing sleight-of-hand feats the Hoover administration used to perform with so-called statistics on unemployment, you probably recognize certain none too faint odors which can be detected as the New Deal girds for battle in the 1936 campaign. Suspicion that someone has been trying to bury a dead mackerel is heightened by indisputable evidence that the administration suppressed a proposed unemploy- ment census such as, at one time or another, had been proposed by nearly everyone in its ranks. More than one statistician and more than one econo- mist in the government suggest, privately, that that action made it much easier for President Roosevelt to make his recent claim that the New Deal had re-em- ployed nearly 5,000,000 since March, 1933, in the private industries reporting to the bureau of labor statistics, Roosevelt didn’t explain whether he had suddenly found the 5,000,000 General Johnson was going to put to work through NRA in the fall of ‘33 or the 5,000,000 Jim Moffett was to employ in the fall of ’34 through FHA. But everybody knows unemployment figures are a statistician’s guessing game and if the A. F. of L. esti- mates—more than 11,000,000 out of work now as com- pared with 13,000,000 in March, 1933; unemployment greater than @ year a4go—are no good, neither are vari- | ous other estimates. eee CENSUS TURNED DOWN The co-ordinating statistical committee, through which the central statistical board and WPA approved survey work relief projects for white-collar unemployed, unanimously recommended a census bureau survey of unemployed, which would cost $9,000,000. The schedules were all worked out and the census would have begun Nov. 15. But Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hopkins—who long ago promised such a census—and Miss Perkins—who made devastating exposures of the last administration's faked figures and had also promised a census of jobless—all turned thumbs down. Even individual states seeking grants for unemploy- ment censuses of their own have found they can’t have any WPA money for them. All of which may have some connection with the fact that a scientific chart of unemployment secretly worked out this summer by federal statisticians indicated that 800,000 more persons were unemployed in June, 1935, than in June, 1934. It certainly suggests an unwillingness to face the fact that industrial production is outstripping re-em- | ployment, eee ICKES HAS SWEET REVENGE Secretary Ickes, who once refused to attend a cabinet meeting on shipboard in Annapolis harbor with the asser- tion that “I'm willing to die for my president, but I won't get seasick for him,” had very little fun on the presi- dential cruise to, through, and from the Panama Canal. Except at shore stops. Some of the correspondents thought Roosevelt played | Ickes a dirty trick by making him go along, though ad- mitting he had hardly dared leave either or both Ickes and Harry Hopkins in Washington, Just the same, Ickes has confided to friends that balm entered his soul when, after he alone had experi- enced miserable days going down the west coast, the cruiser Houston hit heavy seas in the Caribbean. It was then that Harry Hopkins proceeded to get seasick, too. eee CAL PLAYED SAFE Roosevelt's trip to Cambridge, Md., to open the Choptank river bridge, reminded an old-timer at the White House of a hitherto unrecorded Cal Coolidge story. Cautious Cal was going over to attend certain cere- monies at a small town church in Maryland. A secret service man who had explored the ground reported that a small contribution to the church from the president would be welcome. But, he added, if Mr. Coolidge wanted to make the operation painless he could write a check, which the church people undoubtedly would frame and preserve. Coolidge wrote the check. The church framed it. And the check fs still on the walls, uncashed. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) With Other fo} | Reprinted to show what 1 We may or IT may not | agree with Hl thei. B= ‘ 2 : : Prosperity as the Issue (New York Times) The campaign of 1936 still lies some distance in the future, but our Washington bureau notes a growing ten- dency in administration circles to make prosperity the chief issue. Certainly the president's own recent ad- dresses have pointed strongly in this direction. Speak- ing at San Diego before starting on his holiday, and again at Charleston on his return from it, he put his ma- jor emphasis on signs of business recovery: greater activity in many trades, larger retail sales, the pick-up in the durable goods industries, increased employment and larger payrolls. Our dispatches suggest that the next Democratic campaign will consist primarily of an attempt to demonstrate that these gains have been achieved because of the administration and not in spite of it. There is no reason to regret the drift of Democratic strategy in this direction. Too frequently in the past recovery has seemed to have no emphasis at all, and the whole effort of the administration has been concentrated on reform. This has been a mistake of judgment; not because the reforms were unimportant. Many of them have been well worth undertaking, and some were badly needed. The mistake has consisted of not recognizing that the validity of most reforms depends upon the achievement of'a larger measure of recovery. To cite one illustration: Of what use is a broad plan of social security, to be financed primarily through a tax on in- dustrial payrolls, unless industry is put in a position to bear this tax without cutting wages and reducing the number of men employed? Unless recovery is achieved, the number of men at work will remain at a low level. the tax on payrolls will force further retrenchment and the whole purpose of the social security plan will be annulled. In the last analysis, the ability of the United States to support a far-reaching program of social reform de- pends upon the degree of prosperity it enjoys. More- over, while the ordinary voter may desire reform, and even urgently demand it, his primary interest usually lies in his own personal prosperity, and it is not sur- prising to find the administration taking increasing note of the fact as a national election approaches. If the present shift of emphasis continues, the immediate re- sults may be wholly beneficial. For, preparing to move into a position which will enable it to claim credit for prosperity in 1936, it seems altogether likely that the ad- ministration will creasingly to make its needless re- mark and by removing unnecessary the recovery which it intends to hail as its own handi- work. “Polo horse throws film actor.” It was our first in- timation that Hollywood was grooming actors for a pic- ture involving the Prince of Wales. : to explain why she’s so tired of it all. a gift to the memorial fund is more than a donation of money. It is a declaration of faith in the common aspirations and the fundamen- tal soundness of humanity. 2 iNo quota has been set. Everyone is asked _ to give what he can. There can be no quota on|' good will. ‘The anti-Semitism of the Hitler government is an thing, even wien viewed in its most favorable light; | iE bas never’ appeared meaner than it does in the; order sent out by Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister enlightenment, that the names of all oid ea of giving their lost lives back to them. ————— “Bach Garbo sitting requires 200 poses.” Which helps e arise its aalB Oe New Deal expects to spend half @ billion less next year. Every little bit helps. Killed in the World War must be removed from the rolls of honor of German war dead. logic, this would be hard to beat. How can a man more Does not such an act automatically enshrine him among his country’s heroes? Logically, it is hard to see how the German govern- ment can strike these Jewish names from its honor rolls—unless, at the same time, it contrives to find some £9 , For a combination of pettiness and utter lack of | 4 truly show his love for his country than by dying for it?) 4 | PoLttics | > namiowscarrroy | Step Right Up, Boys ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1985 Your Personal Health By William Brady, M.D. to health but not diane Dr. Brady will answer questions ining at ence a brie! and in tal Brad 9 te cate POMC a ‘queries ‘must be accompanied by envelope. G. DON'T LET GRAVITY GET YOU DOWN In an interesting discussion of the influence of gravity upon Get the editor of the Medical Times last April suggested 98 Weert aS prophylactic “periods of centrifugalization, An individual in Seger, baat) of treatment might rest at night upon a large revolving Se Tsaretcey me pete atone Baal ? “Tsk might be Bx coun to ay ten or twenty perimentet a p functions which in the day are Sty eartein and vascular disabilities heart, with edematous success. itorial writer ted out, the trajectory of the blood from the seat tate on sorte or ping artery is subject to @ “pull back” by gravity, when one is in the erect position. Gravity also pulls back on the blood in INX OF the vessels in the extremeties and on the blood in the great vein or vena CALIFORNI cava in the trunk. sss A. Gravity has s good deal to do with varicocele and with hemorrhoids, fas well as varicose veins in the legs. The aging individual's arches do not fall—they are pulled to the ground; his jaw sags; his mouth droops; he bows and bends; he ‘orter. How long before he Is literally ulled. his grave . It dapeags iarpely, I think, the tone of his belly. Anterior abdominal 11 to you. If by chance or intention he has managed to keep fairly good fone in his lly, he is likely to hold out against Old Man Gravity for quite 8 while. T've been noticing bellies now for many years, and I believe the tone of ‘a belly gives a better gauge of an individual's life prospect than does any measurement of blood pressure or sound of heart or state of pulse. Don’t wait for the establishment of centrifugators. Every guy his own centrifugator! Just cultivate the habit of rolling a dozen somersaults on the floor each morning and each night, or still better, roll a few whenever it oceurs to you thru the day. A mat, rug, cushion or floor space three by six feet is sufficient for the purpose. If you are not familiar with somer- saulting, remember, the body is constantly in contact with the floor when turning, Don’t let Webster fool you about it. It is not an airspring at all. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , Twenty-One Pounds of Craving A. word of appreciation. Suggestions in your booklet “Design for Dwindling” jence. Two other effects of the regimen have been s marked decrease of ———"___'nose and throat secretions, and complete indifferenec to alcohol, which I WERgioc:= By BYRON PRICE The children and grown-ups who thought they saw strange and terrible things by the light of the Halloween moon need make no apologies. Many of the politically great and powerful are having the same experience. | The general election still is a year away, but the dark forebodings which always accompany its approach al- ready are evident among the politi- cians of both parties. Nothing is more deceptive than the smiling urbanity customarily exhibit- ed to the public view by men in pub- lic office and men who aspire to pub- lic office. Underneath, a very large percentage of them really are pessi- mists, not optimists. Political hobgoblins are no respec- ters of persons. They put many a party chief into a midnight sweat, and assail many a stalwart with creeps and jitters. Without any reference whatever to the present occupant of the White House, it is of record that not even chief executives as a class are im- mune. Skeletons Are Rattling As to 1936, both Democrats and Republicans are able to visualize things calculated to make the teeth chatter. Every member of the house of rep- resentatives is up for re-electioin. Included are scores of Democrats who know their districts are normally Re- publican, and a considerable number of Republicans who wish they knew how far they dared go in condemning the administration. Only a third of the senators are up, but most of them find their sleep disturbed by the prospect of strong opposition, either from within their own party or by a militant and hun- gry group of “outs,” or both. So far as the presidential situation itself is concerned, plenty of skele- tons are rattling in the closet. now is the possibility that the su- preme court may overthrow the whole Roosevelt program. That would mean that a new program would have to be devised right in the midst of a campaign year, or else it would raise @ constitutional issue which many Democratic leaders wish to avoid, There are others. The budget tangle, the deficits, and the urgent necessity of deciding what relief funds to ask for next year—this all is part of a nightmare of dancing figures and gaping discrepancies. And the Republicans are seeing to it that the specter of the Democratic prom- ises of 1932 is not forgotten. ‘Political Blues’ Among the Republicans walk the ghosts of past rivalries and the in- sinuating certainty of new ones. Vague and mournful questionings shape themselves in the murk: Can @ party split possibly be avoided if Mr. Hoover or Mr. Borah, or both, decide to run?_ How can four billion dollars be beaten? Has the campaign started too soon, and is the tide turn- ing back to Roosevelt? Suppose a war scare lifts up a “stand-by-the-Presi- dent” issue? Perhaps the most realistic of the Republican banshees is the AAA. The problem of what to do about the ifarm situation gives many a Republi- can leader an ugly turn every time he goes out in the dark. On top of it all, both parties are badly in need of campaign funds, yet in these days of popular suspi- cion and scandal-searching they are inclined to look over their shoulders whenever anyone offers them a dol- dar, So most of the smiles should not be taken seriously. In fact, if some clever composer could catch the full sweep of present-day political down- heartedness in a “Political Blues,” the song undoubtedly would be the bluest blues of them all. | SoThey Say | Civilization permits no time tor contemplative thinking. Mentally, I believe I @ great deal from five months of forced contemplation —Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd. ** * IT am for a compulsory oath an The chief Democratic spook just! z ai day to swear at the societies who! War and politics serve for main- brought about this oath. — William! tenance of the people, but war is the) weight and has « collection of secondary sym} McAndrew, New York, attacking new/Bighest expression of the national} son, Mention your age (unless you use the title Mrs.), | will {nad used to excess for many years. (8. B.C.) Answer—Of course. Thé booklet is available to any one who is over- concealed about his per- height and weight, and enclose ten cents coin and a 3-cent-stamped enveloped bearing your ll for survivial. Therefore, politics! lew requiring oath of allegiance from| must serve and war command.—Gen- | address. teachers, . [oath to require every teacher every; {eral Erich Ludendorff, of Germany. (Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.) , winutes, jean. LARUY GLENN warns Jean and Bobi THE STORY CHAPTER VIIL NOW GO ON ™ M R. LEWIS, like his wife, seemed to be of a friendly lisposition. “All I've heard,” be said, “since that other night, has beep a lot some beautiful of stuff about mama with golden hair.” He sat slumped down in his chair and looked at Jean with sly impudence, “Is that rigut, asked. Sandy?” “I's beep worse than that,” said Sandy tugubriously. getting me down, Um away to a shadow.” “Too bad about you,” she said look healthy lightly. “You enough.” The music stopped, and Bobby and Eve came back to the table. Bobby was duly introduced to Mr. Lewis, and as they sat down Jean her conscience was trying to make itself heard discovered that again. “You were jealous when you but you saw Sandy with Eve, she wasting by Robert Bruce © 1935 NEA Service, Inc. regular way.” He paused again, and looked at Bobby fixedly. “Now then,” be went on. “L want a car that costs ten grand. 1 got these bonds that are worth fourteen and jalt—if a fellow can hold ‘em a year or two. I'd be willing to tet ‘em go for the price of the car, if 1 could tind @ fellow that'd take ‘em off my hands that way. See?” “But ii a Bobby, slightly confused, baven’t got the capital to swing a deal like that, 1 can’t buy your bonds and hold ‘em a year.” “No, no, of course not,” Lewis smoothly. “But look; sup- u or the young lady here” gestured toward Jean— “auppose you happen to know somebody that can. You sell them to bim. You can get more than ten grand for ‘em. You could probably shove ‘em for twelve, it trouble. That way you nice cut for yourself. See what I mean?” . said eo. OBBY leaned back aud wrin- kled bis brows. “You mean,” be said slowly, “that it would amount to my buying them from you for ten, selling them for twelve, and pocketing the differ- hat’s it. Only you wouldn't have to put up any cash your- self.” Bobby meditated. “The only trouble is that L don’t believe | know anybody that could swing it,” he said. ‘ “1 bet Daddy would do it,” said dean suddenly. They looked at her. Lewis laughed and shook his head. weren't jealous a bit when Bobby “No, sister,” be said. “Your danced with her,” said Con- a Sa oe : “eee Pe make. we ana ma sclence. se mean,” Bobby said slowly, “it w. amount to my ‘i i 'won't. listen to you any] hese Bonds’ for $10,000 selling thar for $12,000 and pockeang | a8t,t0 40, te, place’ them with longer,” said Jean firmly. A ripple of laughter greeted her as she emerged from this bit of self-communion. Bobby had just told some funny incident or other that had occurred that afternoon while he tried to sell ap automobile to a pompous dowager. Mr. Lewis looked at him with interest. “So you sell autos, do you?” he asked. “Well, 1 try to.” “Mmm. Who you with?” “State Auto .Sales, Incorpo- rated.” “Uh, That's Mark Hopkins’ agency. isn't it?” “Yeah.” ‘ es ee EWIS stared at the drink which the waiter put ig front of him, and held the glass cupped in his band for a tong time, study- ing it /intently. “Listen,” he said to Bobby at ‘oy and | might be able to do some business, one of these last. “ Might me, | guess.” le yawned lazily. “Trouble 1s," he said, “1 got a little deal to put over, first.” Bobby looked at bim expect antly Eve also turned to her husband, 5 “Now listen.” she said, “let's We're mot talk (business nere, supposed to be here for recrea- Her tion tonight. Besides . . out to onr pla the difference?” fomebody that'd be willing to helped me to dwindle from 196 to 175 pounds, without inconven- - bby leaned forward eagerly. “Yeah,” wept op Lewis. “I'm going to be needing a new car. ell let you sell it to iat'd be swell.” sald Bobby. wis continued to look at his a counla ‘bueu you girls can as up a little midnight lunch, and while you do Mr. Wallace and I can talk business. How about it?” It was agreed, and the subject was dropped. There was more dancing, much gay conversation and joking, and at last Eve yawned elaborately and an- nounced that it was getting late. It was 10 o’clock. They left the night club and walked half a block to where a large, expensive sedan was parked by the curb. Lewis unlocked it and slipped in behind the wheel; and Jean won- dered, vaguely, why he should be wanting a new car when he al- ready owned such a fine one. Fifteen minutes later they drew up \before an ornate apartment hotel on the western side of town. He left the car at the curb, ushered them into the lobby and conducted them up to a sixth-floor suite, They entered a roomy, well- furnished living room. Eve sank into an overstuffed chair and an- nounced, “I'm too full to want. any midnight lunch, and I bet all the rest of you are, too. Go ahead and talk business, if you want to.” Bobby found himself seated on a@ couch beside Lewis. Lewis lighted a cigar and said, “Well, it's like this. Your boss, Hopkins, bas got a special job out there I want. It’s a sedan, and he wants $10,000 for it.” Bobby gaped at him. “I didn’t know we had any jobs out there that cost that much,” he said. Pe “This is a special job, | said,” said Lewis, “Custom-built, and .| all. Anyhow, that’s the car I want, Now listen.” B® crocsed the reom suddenly, drawer and took out a long, bulky envelope. He brought this back and resumed his seat on the couch. “In here,” he said, hefting the envelope meditatively, “I’ve got some bonds. They a face value of $14,500, they're ant good as old wheat in the bin, But I've got to be careful what I do with ‘em.” He looked at Bobby. “I got these,” he said, “from a friend of mine in Chicago, in settlement for a debt. As I say, they're worth a hundred cents on the dollar, anywhere, But here's the catch. This friend of mit in politics, out in Chi, and he the bonds from a bird who runs a string of dog-racing tracks and such around that neck of the woods, “The deal was perfectly o. k., keep them in a safety deposit box for @ year before he either sold them or clipped the coupons.” Jean sat with het hands clas; about her knees. Bobby ae slowly shaking bis head. ‘s just no use, 1 guess,” be said. “Gee, I'm sorry. [ could use that dough.” He looked wistfully at Jean. “Well,” said Lewis, “Think it over. And there's this, too: 1 buy that car from your agency, and you're the salesman on the dea), 80 you get your commission thera as well,” “That'd be swell,” said Bobby. “Think it over,” said tenkk “Listen—give me your phone number. I'll give you a buzz in ry a a so—hub?” yy agreed; and later—after Sandy had driven him home, drop- Ding Jean at ber apurtment en Toute—he sat loBg in thought but since then the dog track man has got into a jam with the county grand jury and they're investigat- ing all of his. deals. Now, the trouble is this; those bonds are registered, and if they once turn up anywhere they can be traced right back to him, And you see, it would look bad for this poli- ticlan friend of mine if it should become known that he had got them from this bird who fs in such a jam.” f He tapped Bobby's knee with the envelope. “You know how it is,” he said. “Everything was all right—only it would look bad. It’d be poison, in fact, plain poison, as far as my friend is concerned. He just don’t dare have these bonds come to jight until this blows over. That’s why he let ‘em go to me at a discount, and that's why l’ve got to de the same thing, because 11 dou't want to market them at went to & desk, unlocked a! a bapk or broker's office ip te. over this peculiar, but dazsling, tg 4 could make two thousand dollars,” he- said suddenly, nT could ask Jean to marry me. She tpould marry me, then—she'’s prac- now that iment” ‘8 got money, le smoked two. rete he thought futilely i this pik lem: then, at last, an inspiration struck him, He reached for bis After a tone watt het nasby 2a it -her renee lef sleepy voice “Jeab honey—listen,” “You know what we eee tie T¥ a ut tonight—about those “Yes.” she said sleepily, “1 bet 1 know who'd ay them, % be said. “Will you introduce to bim, so { can to him?” {Fy to sell them mee is it?” “Your boss—Mr. M “(ko te ontaguel”